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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Fraud email example:

From: g_ikoli@terra.com.mx
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:12:13 +0200
Subject: REPLY NOW

Attention Sir/Madam,

I am Barrister George Ikoli, a solicitor at law. I am the personal
attorney to Mr. Mr. Dahlig Mitchell , who used to work with one of
the oil company's in Nigeria. Here in after shall be referred to as
my client. On the August 6, 1997, my client was among some of the
passengers who died in a plane crash [Korean Air Flight 801]. For
your verification you can visit:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list/
Since the demise of my client, I personally has watched with keen
interest to see his next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one
has come to claim his funds deposit of US$10.5 m, [Ten million five
hundred thousand united states dollars] which was deposited by my
late client with a Finance Company here in nigeria.
On this note, I decided to seek for a foreigner who will stand as
the Next of kin to claim this funds from the finance company where the
funds
was deposited, as none of the deceased relative has come up to claim
the deceased funds.
The banking ethics here does not allow such money to
stay more than eight years, after which the funds will be forfeited
to
the government account as unclaimed funds.
With respect to your personality, I will give you 40% of the total
sum.Upon the receipt of your response, I will not Fail to bring to
your notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not
entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer will be
finalized within ten (10) banking days depending on how fast we can
communicate.

I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any
claim we may make. all I require is your honest cooperation to enable
us see this deal through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Please get in touch with me by my email : g_ikoli2003@yahoo.com.

Best regards,

Barrister George Ikoli(esq)







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